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Show 'DOBBIN'S' 0115 ME ! RULED YTHE AUTO Growing Motor Industry I Gives Every Indication of the Passing of Horse. AH great and revolutionary develop- merits surprise the world, and hence people peo-ple are slow to acknowledge their ad-S ad-S vent until it is patent to all. While the automobile industry ranks fourth j among American industries, doing a billion and a quarter dollars nnnuallv, and has made this record in thirteen years, the most remarkable industrial development in the world's historv. many people regard it as an evaue's-cent evaue's-cent business, and talk about the i " saturation point'1 having been reached. j , But the evolution of the automobile! and the success and prosperity or the principal manutacturei s, have " con verted vert-ed thousands of skeptics during the past few years, especially among the hanking fraternity ol the whole country, and banking cred.it arid capital are now-available now-available wherever needed. Bankers have become firm believers in tile commercial stabilitv of the automobile, auto-mobile, but ten years aen. ;in, fin several years thereafter, banking sup port in a large wav was denied the struggling voung industry, which was privately financed and further aided by cash deposits received from dealers ami prospective buyers before cars were delivered. |